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What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Crispy noodles: They're tasty, and...fuel-efficient! That is, if someday we're driving hydrogen-fueled cars.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
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The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
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One architecture professor is giving trailer parks a good name. Michael Berk of Mississippi State University has developed award-winning mobile hom...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
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Gassing up new family cars with green, clean hydrogen is edging closer to reality.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
To prepare for climate change, sometimes it’s good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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“Pygmy possum” and “giant rat.” They sound like rock groups, but no! These are two mammals new to science found recently in a pristine jungle in th...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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Sometimes you don’t have to look far to find a solution. While 300 million people in Africa suffer from hunger and malnutrition, the most popular ...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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Pining for the past? Here’s something to ponder: Cities built predominantly before 1945, score better in sustainability rankings!
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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Have you ever thought of using your loved ones as compost? Uh, I’d better explain...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Ha...
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one’s making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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To the world-at-large, global warming is anything but a game. But if you happen to be on the Internet, it can be.
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember playing with animal match books? By flipping the left- or right-hand pages you could match the picture of an animal’s head with its body. ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
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Here’s something that probably won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But maybe it should be since it could impact more people than anyth...
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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f you’re looking to save energy and cold, hard cash, check out the fridge.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Nature has a few tricks up her sleeve that can teach us a thing or two about national security.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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His name is Paul Stamets, but you can call him the Mushroom Man.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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What’s better than a glass of cold milk? How about a glass of cold organic milk from a biodegradable bottle.
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- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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In 1941, there were only fifteen Whooping cranes left in North America -- a flock from Canada that wintered in Texas.
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- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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A shark that strolls along coral on its fins. A shrimp with enough muscle and speed to shatter the glass in an aquarium. These and 48 other never-b...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1